Lisa Kingston

Global citizen & development practitioner, African art lover, avid downhill skier. Blue 🌊. Vermonter.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

@Patriotmom717 @DeusNougat No he doesn’t, and no it isn’t. Watch this instead and stop worshipping sociopathic Nazi billionaires who are actively attempting a hostile takeover of our federal government as we speak…while you guys share videos about how Elon just wants to help us [WAKE. THE. FUCK. UP. OMG]

[Executive Team Coach, speaker and author @wiley_inc]

Trump Musk War Against America
Is DOGE a Trojan Horse?

The United States is undergoing a hostile takeover. Combined with Trump’s dismantling of the United States national security and law enforcement apparatus and pardoning of January 6 criminals, there is no other conclusion to reach than that Trump is at war with the United States and Musk is his foot soldier, taking a wrecking ball to the federal agencies Trump and Musk oppose.

It is a two-layered cake. Trump is bypassing Congress with his executive orders. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's DOGE investigation is to keep an authoritarian government in power.

https://t.co/dEalXH3vED

[Crazy Fenak @CrazyFenaker]

@SeanCasten The problem is the "efficiency" part is a lie. Elon Musk enacting a political vendetta against USAID and CFPB by destroying those agencies wholesale is not efficiency. Efficiency would have been, for example, having USAID negotiate better prices for crops.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Damn right! Who agrees? 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit this cartoon.

[Lisa Kingston @LisaKingston802]

Impeach him again

[The Hill @thehill]

"Is Trump really unaccountable for his actions?" (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/UCLcBSW48B

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I know, I know!! 👋

Two-part answer: Merrick Garland and Mitch McConnell.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

Starting today and until U.S. tariffs are removed, Ontario is banning American companies from provincial contracts.

Every year, the Ontario government and its agencies spend $30 billion on procurement, alongside our $200 billion plan to build Ontario. U.S.-based businesses will now lose out on tens of billions of dollars in new revenues. They only have President Trump to blame.

We’re going one step further. We’ll be ripping up the province’s contract with Starlink. Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy.

Canada didn't start this fight with the U.S., but you better believe we're ready to win it.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

Atul Gawande, former USAID official: “Two weeks ago I was combatting diseases. We had 21 serious outbreaks at the time worldwide. Three are serious now: an Ebola outbreak in the capital of Uganda. Bird flu has broken out in 49 countries. Our efforts to contain them have all been shut down.”

[Maksym Borodin @adnashmyash]

Millions of people are watching online as the Russians destroy America within with the hands of a South African oligarch...

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Big Daddy Trump will take care of us. Just buy some Trump crypto and a Trump Bible and pray to the Mango Messiah. All will be well.

[African Stream @african_stream]

JEFFERY SACHS: WE ARE WHAT'S WRONG WITH AFRICA

What is wrong with the DRC? In this clip (from the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in 2021), US economist Jeffery Sachs breaks it down, challenging Western nations to look in the mirror. In a powerful rebuttal of the popular framing of narratives around the economic and political struggles of Africa, Sachs calls for accountability from the West. He notes that the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo today is directly tied to centuries of Western imperialism, exploitation and political interference.

The public policy analyst gives a historical account of the DRC’s decades-long exploitation to illustrate Western dishonesty. He points to Belgium's brutal occupation of the Congo, which killed more than 10-million people, and the Belgian/British/US-led assassination of the Central African nation’s first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba (1925-61).

Sachs further notes how neo-colonialism operates today in the DRC, where Western companies unethically extract resources while the population remains impoverished and is denied its fundamental rights, recognised under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

Imperialist powers may have stopped enslaving and colonising Africans, but they still plunder the continent’s resources, assassinate its incorruptible leaders and fuel wars that stiffle growth.  Today’s renewed cycle of war in the Congo is yet another chapter in the long history of neo-colonialism and imperialism.

Questions of internal governance miss the point. The real question should be: what is wrong with the West?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave to 61,709 people, having added thousands of Palestinians who are missing and now presumed dead.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If you paid 1 penny in federal income taxes last year, you paid more to the IRS than Tesla, a trillion dollar corporation owned by Elon Musk who has become $228 billion richer since Election Day after spending $277 million to elect Trump. This is what a rigged system looks like.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

THIS is the fire I want to see from every Dem: “Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over financial systems of the Treasury but you don't control money of American people. Congress does that. We don't have a 4th branch of gov called 'Elon Musk.’”

[Lisa Kingston @LisaKingston802]

@Angry_Staffer Someone should start posting the numbers of government staff in USAID that have been let go as well. Devastating. Brain drain.